Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu

This documentation describes Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu.
Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu automates the deployment of the Instana agent across a VMware Tanzu Foundation.
The Instana agent automatically monitors applications and services deployed across the VMware Tanzu Foundation and alerts you of issues in seconds.

Overview

Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu is a turn-key Application Performance Management solution that provides immediate and granular visibility across all layers of your VMware Tanzu Foundation: the applications running on VMware Tanzu, the services they consume, and the infrastructure that hosts them.
Instana’s AutoTrace technology automatically and imimediately provides observability and collects health data so your developers can focus on delivering high quality, business critical applications.

Product Snapshot

The following table provides version and version-support information about Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu.

Element

Details

Tile version

1.177.0

Release date

May 17, 2020

Software component version

1.177.0

Compatible Ops Manager version(s)

v2.5.x, v2.6.x, v2.7.x, v2.8.x and, v2.9.x

Compatible VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs version(s)

v2.5.x, v2.6.x, v2.7.x, v2.8.x and, v2.9.x

Compatible Pivotal Isolation Segment version(s)

v2.5.x, v2.6.x, v2.7.x, v2.8.x and, v2.9.x

Compatible Pivotal Container Service version(s)

v1.5.1-build8 and above

Compatible VMware Tanzu SQL [MySQL] version(s)

v2.5.3 and above

Compatible RabbitMQ for VMware Tanzu version(s)

v1.17.0 and above

Compatible Redis for VMware Tanzu version(s)

v2.0.0 and above

Compatible MongoDB Enterprise Service for VMware Tanzu version(s)

v1.13.0 and above

BOSH stemcell version

Ubuntu Xenial

IaaS support

AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack

Requirements

Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu has the following requirements:

The coordinates of the Instana backend: endpoint and endpoint port

Instana agent key

All the configurations required for configuring the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile for your VMware Tanzu foundation are available in the More > Management Portal > Install Agent > Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile section in the Instana backend.

If you do not already have an Instana backend, Instana offers a self-service trial that is entirely compatible with the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile: see the Instana Free Trial page.

Tracing PHP applications running with the PHP buildpack is not supported.
The Instana agent does not automatically trace them.

Tracing Python applications running with the Python buildpack requires following the “Activating without code changes” method described in the Python sensor documentation.
The supported activation method requires setting an environment variable, which can be specified in the cf push manifest as shown in the Deploying with App Manifests documentation of Cloud Foundry.

Windows-based Diego Cells are not supported. The Instana agent will not be installed on the Windows-based Diego cells.

Feedback

If you have a feature request, questions, or information about an issue bug visit Instana here.

License

Before deploying the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile, you must procure an Instana backend or SaaS tenant unit. The Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile is automatically configured to use APM licenses on Diego Cells and Infrastructure licenses everywhere else; for more information about Instana licenses see Instana’s Pricing.

If you do not already have an Instana backend, Instana offers a self-service trial that is entirely compatible with the Instana Microservices Application Monitoring for VMware Tanzu tile: see the Instana Free Trial page.